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Tina Frank is a graphic designer and media artist aswell as professor for graphic design at the University of Art and Design in [[Linz]], Austria. Her roots are in webdesign and cover designs for experimental electronic music during the mid 1990’s when she also started to work with digital realtime-visualisation, video & multimedia. The focus of her work lies in Print, Corporate Design, Signage Systems and within the experimental field of music visualisations. She gave uncountable performances at festivals worldwide, her videos are shown at many festivals. In 2006 the video »chronomops« received first price at »diagonale 06« for best innovative, exper­imental-, animation- or shortfilm.
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'''Tina Frank''' is a visual artist, designer and professor at the University of Art and Design Linz where she is heading the Department Visual Communication at the Institute for Media.
  
She was founder & creative director for the design offices »U.R.L. Agentur für Informationsdesign« (Vienna & Berlin) aswell as »designby frank scheikl« (Vienna). In 2007 she started »Tina Frank Design«. Taschen Books listed Tina Frank in their book »Graphic Design for the 21st Century« among the top 100 graphic designers worldwide. Many of her coverdesigns have been published in numerous design reference works and are considered influential. With generative tools she creates immersive works to visualize  music, hotel rooms, and the likes.
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Since the early 1990s she has been collaborating with musicians to create audio-visual performances and installations presented all around the world. Frank's visualizations are characterized by an abstract formal language and an intense colorfulness that playfully explores the limits of perception and the materiality of images on screens.
  
Since October 2008 Tina Frank is head of the department of graphic design and photography at the University of Art and Design Linz. In 2010 she organized the international symposium »REAL FAKE – reality as image, image as reality«, which dealt with the design and mapping of reality. Tina Frank has given many presentations on how to link design, music and the moving image.
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As a graphic designer she has established three design companies, which have worked for a wide range of clients. She received the Diagonale Prize for Innovative Cinema, was awarded Winner of the Digital Products from the International Cartographic Conference and together with her students they received the IIID Award.
  
* http://www.tinafrank.net/
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Her current focus in teaching is on digital publications, data visualisations and synaesthetic experimentation. Together with Marianne Pührerfellner and Sabine Kienzer she established [http://splace-magazine.at/ splace-magazine.at] for the University of Art and Design Linz as an explorative and playful communication tool, that investigates into possibilities of publications, exhibition and media formats. Tina Frank lives and works in [[Linz]] and [[Vienna]]. [https://tinafrank.net/biography (2024)]
* http://twitter.com/tinafrank
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* http://vimeo.com/tinafrank
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* [https://www.tinafrank.net/ Website]
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* [https://vimeo.com/tinafrank Vimeo]
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* [https://twitter.com/tinafrank Twitter]
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* [https://34.sk/en/the-final-transcript-tina-frank Interview], 2024

Latest revision as of 10:27, 18 July 2024

Tina Frank is a visual artist, designer and professor at the University of Art and Design Linz where she is heading the Department Visual Communication at the Institute for Media.

Since the early 1990s she has been collaborating with musicians to create audio-visual performances and installations presented all around the world. Frank's visualizations are characterized by an abstract formal language and an intense colorfulness that playfully explores the limits of perception and the materiality of images on screens.

As a graphic designer she has established three design companies, which have worked for a wide range of clients. She received the Diagonale Prize for Innovative Cinema, was awarded Winner of the Digital Products from the International Cartographic Conference and together with her students they received the IIID Award.

Her current focus in teaching is on digital publications, data visualisations and synaesthetic experimentation. Together with Marianne Pührerfellner and Sabine Kienzer she established splace-magazine.at for the University of Art and Design Linz as an explorative and playful communication tool, that investigates into possibilities of publications, exhibition and media formats. Tina Frank lives and works in Linz and Vienna. (2024)

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